William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth23 April 1564
Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
Journeys end in lovers meeting.
Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
It is not night when I do see your face.
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs.
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
I love thee, I love thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
What light through yonder window breaks?
This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows
Every one can master a grief but he that has it
The blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!